VERNON — A bus driver who allegedly left two children on a bus last week has been charged with abandoning the two boys, police said this morning.

Kimberly Moumblow left the special needs boys, ages 7 and 9, on the bus for about 45 minutes, according to authorities. The bus was not running and the doors and windows were closed, police said.

The Vernon school district has already fired the bus company — MacNova — school superintendent Charles Maranzano told The Star-Ledger on Friday.

Moumblow also backed the school bus into the bus company owner's house while trying to park the vehicle, police allege. In addition to a fourth-degree charge of cruelty and neglect of children, she was also cited for leaving the scene of an accident and failure to report an accident.

The parents had called to ask why their children had not been dropped off after the school day ended at 1 p.m. – and the school district could not contact the driver or the owner of the bus company.

Police were then called. Shortly thereafter, the owner was contacted – and said that the driver had run into an emergency, but the bus was running, and the children were safe, Maranzano said last week.

It was only after the parents discovered the children overheated and in distress at home that the emergency story was doubted, Maranzano said.

Further investigation revealed that the bus was turned off, parked, and closed down, said Maranzano, who called the apparently-false story “upsetting” and “incomprehensible.”